Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 31, 1914 (the day before Germany declared war on Russia) Prince Oscar, then a youth of 26, utterly disgusted the Court by espousing in morganatic union a comparative nobody: Ina Maria, Countess of Brassewitz. That a royal prince should look no higher was considered in the very poorest taste. That Prince Oscar and his countess should settle down in unobtrusive happiness to the duty of rearing children (four), was deemed commendable but dull...
Famed British Miner-Communist leader A. J. ("Emperor") Cook (TIME, May 10, 1926) promptly assembled "a mass meeting of protest," declared: "The Government's refusal to grant these passports to harmless, innocent children proves that it is preparing for war against Soviet Russia...
Makar, declared: "It is significant that the murder of Minister Vojkov occurred just after the rupture between England and Russia. There has not been one murder of a Soviet leader in which England has not played a dominating role...
...beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal...
...English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist. I earn all my money; and everything I had in Russia was taken. "But Soviet Artists say now I give money to some White Guard people who are against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money I give to poor children in Vienna who belong to those outside of work. They starve. I have mooch money...